Instead of trying to prove the truth of Christianity to the unregenerate, it assumes its truth at the outset and then challenges the natural man by demonstrating that on his presuppositions nothing is true, nothing can be accounted for, and his ow...

[I]n his starting point, method, and conclusion, man takes for granted his own ultimacy, insists on being his own god and interpreter, and as a result misinterprets all things, himself, the flowers of the field and the Almighty God.?????????Rushdoony, B...

The basic issue...has not changed since Eden. The temptation of man is ???To be as God,??? knowing, that is, determining for himself what shall be good and what shall be evil. Man establishes his own law and decrees his own righteousness and is not bo...

Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests, of the people.?????????Madison, The Federalist, No. 10, pg. 68